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Season 1 Episode 2027
Hannah Durkin is a historian whose new book, Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade, shines a light on the final years of a pivotal yet deeply troubling period i…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
The Showman: How Volodymyr Zelensky Shines on the World Stage
Season 1 Episode 2026
Simon Shuster is senior correspondent for Time. As a journalist working in both Russia and Ukraine for nearly two decades, he has watched and reported on the story of conflict between the two countri…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
How to Prevent Dementia, with Richard Restak
Season 1 Episode 2025
According to the WHO, Alzheimer’s ranks as the seventh leading cause of death globally. By 2050 or earlier in the absence of a breakthrough, the number of people aged 65 and older with Alzheimer’s is…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
How to be a Supercommunicator, with Charles Duhigg
Season 1 Episode 2024
Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and the celebrated author of bestselling book, The Power of Habit. The writer for the New Yorker returns now with his new book, Supercommunicators,…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Adam Grant and Tim Harford on Achieving Greatness, Part Two
Season 1 Episode 2022
This is the second instalment of our thee-part conversation with organisational psychologist and bestselling author Adam Grant. He is one of the most sought-after business minds in the world and has …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Adam Grant and Tim Harford on Achieving Greatness, Part One
Season 1 Episode 2021
Adam Grant is one of the most sought-after organisational psychologists in the world. He has provided expert advice to many of the world’s greatest business leaders, including Bill Gates and Sheryl S…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Fame, Women and the Toxic Noughties
Season 1 Episode 2020
Columnist and writer Sarah Ditum is the author of Toxic, which explores how internet culture changed the face of celebrity forever during the early 2000s. The book looks at the era’s hostile treatmen…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Adventures in Philosophy with Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins
Season 1 Episode 2019
Two formidable minds explore the worlds of philosophy, science and the places where those two disciplines meet for this episode. Daniel Dennett is the American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scie…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Life Lessons from the Early Greeks with Adam Nicolson
Season 1 Episode 2018
Adam Nicolson is the writer and author whose past books have explored immersive and at times weighty topics such as our understanding of the Bible and the work of great poets such as Coleridge and Wo…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
The Mend is Nigh: Hannah Ritchie on How to Build a Sustainable Planet
Season 1 Episode 2017
Hannah Ritchie is the influential data scientist and researcher whose new book adds a rare glimpse of optimism to the conversation surrounding the future health of the climate. Not the End of the Wor…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago